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Webinar: The key changes in the feed and phosphate market
12 June 2020
The market for feed-grade inorganic phosphate products such as
dicalcium phosphate (DCP) and monocalcium phosphate (MCP) has
experienced significant changes since the beginning of 2020.
Much of this can be directly or indirectly linked to the
Covid-19 pandemic: changes in consumer behavior reshuffled the
priority list of livestock farmers, low ethanol and beer production
caused a reduction in fermented grains availability (e.g. DDGS),
limited exports of goods from China during Q1 caused a scarcity of
containers in Europe.
Yet a lot more is happening in parallel, perhaps masked by the
global relevance of Covid-19: supply and demand forces continue to
foster change, for example the ASF (African Swine Fever) outbreak
of 2019 continues to keep domestic demand in much of Asia capped
and encouraged larger feed phosphate exports, and while frictions
between the USA and China persist this is supporting livestock
farming in much of Europe while one of the largest local suppliers,
Aliphos, filed for bankruptcy in February 2020.
On this webcast, Allan Pickett, Head of
Analysis for Phosphate, Sulphur and Potash, joins Alberto
Persona, Principal Analyst for Phosphates, to talk through
these themes in detail.
